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CASE OF ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS, 
WITH LAMENESS OF THE RIGHT HINDER 
PASTERN JOINT. 
By Herr KoRBER, of Merseburg. 
On the 9th of August, Herr P.’s coachman drove out in the 
cool of the morning with the empty carriage. Hardly had he 
driven a quarter of a mile when he perceived that one of the 
horses (a grey mare, six years old, and well bred) went with its 
hinder parts stretched out and trailing after it, and was covered 
with foam. He immediately turned round, and proceeding at a 
foot’s pace, reached my house, and begged me to examine the 
animal. He also, in reply to my farther inquiries, stated that the 
animal had not appeared quite so lively as usual that morning, 
but that she had consumed her usual quantity of fodder, and on the 
road had plentifully voided some well-balled dung. No escape of 
urine had been observed. 
I found the pulse to be 48, small and hard, and the breathing 
14 or 15 in a minute. The eyes were inflamed, as were also the 
mucous membranes, wherever they were visible ; the mouth was 
dry and hot ; the body was warmer than is natural, and covered 
with perspiration ; the ears and feet were cold; the animal occa- 
sionally drew up her hind leg and beat the ground with it, flinched 
when the parts near the kidneys were touched, and seemed excited 
and disturbed : the portion of the back between the hip bones was 
stiff, and apparently immoveable. While I was examining it, a 
period of about ten minutes, the animal staled twice, and voided 
each time a small quantity of reddish fluid. It refused all fodder, 
but drank of some water that stood near. 
Before doing any thing in this case I returned to my house to 
finish some business which I had left undone, and it might be 
an hour before I returned to my patient. During that time it had 
got considerably worse : the pulse was now 60, and the breathing 
30 in a minute. The animal was much more uneasy, and looked 
anxiously about, and testified a desire to lie down. In these 
attempts the hinder legs were brought under the belly, and pre- 
pared to make the bed requisite to enable the animal to lie down ; 
but as soon as the part of the back between the hip bones had to 
move the animal sprung quickly up, and shot forward with such 
violence that nothing but the support of the wall and stall main- 
tained its equilibrium. After repeated attempts to lie down the 
animal suddenly fell, and then lay for some time tolerably quiet. 
In addition to these symptoms the right thigh appeared lame, and 
